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thirteen annamed princes of No. 15 and, as Månad ê va's two dates, Samvat 386 and 413, the interval between the inscription and the would be equivalent to 464-5 and 491-2 A.D. probable date of the accession of Narendra- and Vasantasena Vasanta do va's date de va is about 44 years, it is evident that at Samvat 435 to 513-4. We have seen above the utmost two of the unnamed princes can be that the reign of Siva deva II probably allocated to this period. Dhruvade va thus began about 720 A.D. The interval between obtains the eleventh place among the thirteen. him and Vasanta sê na would therefore be Going further back, we have the inscription 207 years, or if we put (what perhaps is No. 5, in which Śivadêva I declares that preferable), instead of 720, the date of his Ambu varman is the administrator of his first inscription, 725 A.D., 212 years. Accord kingdom, and has rendered important services ing to our inscription No. 15, fifteen in war. Though it is not dated, it is yet kings ruled between Vasanta dê va and indisputable, that Śivad êva I. preceded Sivad êva, the father of Jayadeva, and Dhruvad ê ve, because Amśu varman's we have seen above that the date Samvat inscriptions range from Sriharsha-Samvat 34-45 435 falls into the beginning of Vasanta. (?) or from 640-1 A.D. to at least 650. It sêna's reign. Thus we obtain the result that remains, however, somewhat doubtful if the 16 kings reigned together only 207-213 years, two kings followed each other immediately, or or that a reign lasted on an average 13 years if one reign lies between them. Though the and a quarter. This proportion is not much possibility of the former supposition cannot be altered if we take instead of the interval denied, the latter is yet more probable. As between Vasantasena and Sivadê va the Hiuen Thsang's remarks, which are based on most dirtant dates known, that of Mânainformation collected in 637-646 A.D., an- dê va's first inscription and that of Jayadoubtely indicate, Ansu varman's career de va's. In that case we have to deduct from must have been a long one, and his great deeds, Sriharsha-Samvat 153 or 759-60 A.D. the value through which he rose to a royal or quasi-royal of Samvat 386 according to the Saka era or position, must have been performed a con- 464-5 plus the number of the five or six years siderable time before the time when Hiuen of Jaya deva's reign which may be supposed Thsang first visited Northern India, and before to have elapsed in 759-60. As Månadeva's the time when he issued his edicts. Moreover, first date no doubt fell in the beginning of his Siva déva's inscription (No. 5) evidently reign, the remainder, 290, has to be distributed falls in the period before Amsu varman's among 19 kings (Må na dê va, Mahid ê va, power was fully developed. It will, therefore, Vasanta de va, Udaya da dê va, 13 unbe advisable not only to place this document named princes, Narendrade ya and before Sribarsha-Samvat 34, but to assume that Sivadê va). The result is a little more it was incised a good many, say ten to fifteen, than fifteen years and a quarter for each years earlier. Under these circumstances reign. Neither the former figure nor the there is room for one short reign between second are sufficiently large. For the lists both Siva déva I. and Dhruva deva, and we of the Varikávali and of inscription No. 15 may allot to the former the ninth place among refer to generations of kings, not to the reigns the thirteen unnamed princes of the genealogical of collaterals. The Vamsávali states thronghout list in inscription No. 15. If we now turn to the that each of the enumerated Sarya vamsi question, to which era the dates of Mån - kings was the son of his predecessor. In the dê va and Vasanta sena - Vasanta- inscription No. 15, the same statement is de va belong, it might be contended that this appended to the kings of the group beginning must be the Sakasainvat of 78-9 A.D., because with Vrisha dê va, except in the case of the the use of this era is known to have prevailed last, Udaya deva, whose relationship to very generally, particularly in the south and Vasanta de va is left doubtful. The thirteen west of India, already during the earlier unnamed princes are again stated to be his centuries of our era. On this supposition lineal descendants." With respect to the last
". Vs. 11. "After him (Vasantaddva) followed thirteen sprong from the lord of the earth, called Udayadeva," - asyantarepy udiyadeva iti kahittid, jatda trayodasa.
